Pepsi
One of the Pepsi ads, which featured the Big B and a boy, was Bachchan's idea. The series also saw cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar share screen space with Amitabh.
The closest Bachchan ever got to cricket in films was when he played narrator to Aamir Khan's Oscar-nominated film Lagaan, which had an hour-long climax where the actors played cricket.
Rakesh Mehra, who directed the cola ads, also directed Bachchan in his previous BPL ads and the film Aks, co-starring Manoj Bajpai, Raveena Tandon and Nandita Das.